{"id":483743,"date":"2022-08-12T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-day-shift-review-jamie-foxx-is-the-vampire-hunter-as-working-stiff\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:00:21","slug":"watch-day-shift-review-jamie-foxx-is-the-vampire-hunter-as-working-stiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-day-shift-review-jamie-foxx-is-the-vampire-hunter-as-working-stiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Day Shift&#8217; Review: Jamie Foxx is the Vampire Hunter as Working Stiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6a3d76bfa4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6a3d76bfa4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-day-shift-review-jamie-foxx-is-the-vampire-hunter-as-working-stiff\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Day_Shift_Review_Jamie_Foxx_is_the_Vampire_Hunter_as_Working_Stiff%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Day Shift&#8217; Review: Jamie Foxx is the Vampire Hunter as Working Stiff&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-day-shift-review-jamie-foxx-is-the-vampire-hunter-as-working-stiff\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Day_Shift_Review_Jamie_Foxx_is_the_Vampire_Hunter_as_Working_Stiff%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Day Shift&#8217; Review: Jamie Foxx is the Vampire Hunter as Working Stiff&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Day_Shift_Review_Jamie_Foxx_is_the_Vampire_Hunter_as_Working_Stiff%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Day Shift&#8217; Review: Jamie Foxx is the Vampire Hunter as Working Stiff&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Day_Shift_Review_Jamie_Foxx_is_the_Vampire_Hunter_as_Working_Stiff%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Day Shift&#8217; Review: Jamie Foxx is the Vampire Hunter as Working Stiff&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cDay Shift\u201d is a vampire thriller stuffed with lock-and-load ultraviolence, starring Jamie Foxx in imperious badass mode. At heart, though, it\u2019s a knowingly eccentric goof of a movie, to the point that it\u2019s hard, for a while, not to find it agreeable, even as you register what a preposterous piece of fluff it is. Unfortunately, it\u2019s also an arduous piece of fluff. It\u2019s full of blow-you-away action scenes, and it\u2019s also full of rules \u2014 a satirical vampire cosmology that\u2019s fun until it starts to be just convoluted enough to give you a headache, especially when the rules are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied as inconsistently as they are here. Directed by J.J. Perry, \u201cDay Shift\u201d wants to be a dessert drenched in blood. That gives it flavor but also weighs it down.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx plays Bud Jablonski, a Los Angeles vampire hunter whose day job is driving around in an ancient pick-up truck to clean and service swimming pools in the San Fernando Valley. Bud\u2019s one and only goal is to get his hands on $10,000, which he needs to pay for the braces and grade-school tuition of his 8-year-old daughter, Paige (Zion Broadnax). (If he doesn\u2019t have the money by Monday, his ex-wife, played by Meagan Good, will move the kid to Florida.) He plans to get the cash by selling vampire fangs, which, once extracted, can be quite valuable, depending on which bloodsucker they come from.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds simple, right? But \u201cDay Shift,\u201d which is at once an undead action movie, a cheeky good cop\/crazy cop buddy comedy, and the tale of a tough but saintly divorced dad out to save his family, is one of the more perversely twisty vampire flicks in recent memory. There are, in this movie, five types of vampires, organized by age: Southern, Eastern, Spider, Uber, and Juvenile. Got it? Don\u2019t worry if you don\u2019t, because none of it comes to much.<\/p>\n<p>How do you kill the vamps? By blasting them through the heart with special African hard wood, <em>then<\/em> cutting their heads off with a silver blade. There\u2019s a black-market sunblock that allows the vamps to be out in the SoCal daylight for maybe 20 minutes. (That doesn\u2019t come to much either.) And once they\u2019re killed, they release a special gas that you\u2019ve got to get off you. Bud has a special orange-yellow powder to use in the shower for that. Important rule: Don\u2019t let the powder get in your butthole!<\/p>\n<p>That the vampires are killed by decapitation is the closest the film comes to having an inviolable law (sort of like \u201cKill the brain and you kill the ghoul\u201d). Until, that is, a key vampire gets decapitated only to place his head right back on himself, like something out of \u201cAn American Werewolf in London.\u201d There are also vamps who are loyal to humans rather than other vampires. Why even ask why?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDay Shift\u201d is the sort of movie where Bud enters a suburban house, and there are two teenagers playing video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s (they\u2019re juvie vamps), and after they get blown away, Bud realizes that the house is a vampire hive, at which point one of the vampire-hunter brothers he has hooked up with announces, <em>\u201cShowtime, bro!\u201d<\/em> Cue the vampire extras in pale makeup and what look like costume-shop fangs bursting through doors, dropping through ceilings, and clawing through walls to become instant ballistic fodder. The vampire combat scenes aren\u2019t particularly suspenseful, because they all come down to the same thing: The gun blasts send the vamps hurtling backward, but they instantly repair and continue to come at you \u2014 spinning and doing spider-walks, attacking in a contorted frenzy. Until, that is, you can chop the head off, which this movie does with an abandon that becomes numbing.<\/p>\n<p>The chief baddie is a glamorous vampire real-estate agent, Audrey (Karla Souza), who is out to colonize the Valley by setting up the houses there as vampire hives. Unfortunately for her, Foxx\u2019s Bud is a military veteran who\u2019s totally mercenary about vampire killing, fiercely cut-and-dried in his action mega-moves. His vampire-hunter-as-working-stiff vibe is tied to the film\u2019s flakiest and, in a way, most original element. In L.A., it seems that there\u2019s a <em>union<\/em> of vampire hunters \u2014 literally a workers\u2019 union, like the Teamsters. Bud used to belong to it but was kicked out for violating so many regulations. But his legendary mentor, Big John (Snoop Dogg), has the clout to get Bud reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019re in the union, you can sell vampire fangs for much more money. But to do so, Bud has to agree to go on the hunt with Seth (Dave Franco), a desk jockey who\u2019s there to make sure he doesn\u2019t violate any union codes. He\u2019s like the rookie cop assigned to ride with the reckless veteran trasher of protocol, only in this case the newbie is a geek full of terror who keeps pissing his pants.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Foxx is such a good actor that he gives even a skewed product like this one the benefit of his quick-cut retorts and genre-hero mystique. But \u201cDay Shift,\u201d instead of becoming more invested in Bud\u2019s situation, starts to leave the human story on the back burner. It turns into a free-for-all around the time that Big John shows up with a circular machine gun, which fires rounds with such a punishing show of velocity and force that after he rips through a roomful of vampires, it takes a moment for us to realize that they should all still be alive since none of them was decapitated. By then, it\u2019s the movie that has lost its head.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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